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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bonzodog" data-source="post: 307214" data-attributes="member: 47419">Fair comment. The labeling of  foodstuffs for diabetics is frankly ****. My wife has just come in with a pile of shopping and l am looking at a packet of Tesco Finest Stoneground Wholemeal  Farmhouse Batch.OK let look at the labelling:Carb (per 100g) 36.1g of which sugars 3.0gNow lets compare with a packet of Warburton's Soft White Slice:Carb (per 100g) 43.4gof which sugars 1.7gBUT that doesn't help not a jot.  What you MUST do is look at the ingredients and make the decision from there. White bread contains processed flour (first ingredient: wheat flour) when compared with the brown (first ingredient  stoneground wholemeal wheat flour). Get a table of GI indexes  and look there....<a href="http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/gi_diet/glycaemic_index_tables.htm" target="_blank">http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/di ... tables.htm</a>I wish the GI index of foodstuffs was on the label!For what its worth the former has a gI index of 53, the latter 70 .....Also consider the glycemic load (GL).This is a measure of the available carbohydrates together with  how much each gram of food raises the GI index. To take the example in wiki, a melon has a high GI but since the total amount of carbohydrate is low, the GL is also low .....</blockquote>

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